On this episode of The Digital Week podcast, Prof Marek Kowalkiewicz is joined by QUT Business School's, Prof Kevin Desouza.

How long until we're sipping Piña Coladas while robots do all the work?

QUT's Prof Kevin Desouza joins Marek to break down the hype vs. reality of job automation and discuss why in a digital world, digital natives are most out of work.

In this episode of Hiding in Plain Sight, Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss trends shaping the way we think.

This is a part of a three episode series exploring future trends surrounding working, living, and thinking.

In this episode of Hiding in Plain Sight, Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss trends shaping the way we live.

This is a part of a three episode series exploring future trends surrounding working, living, and thinking.

In this episode of Hiding in Plain Sight, Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss trends shaping work of the future.

This is a part of a three episode series exploring future trends surrounding working, living, and thinking.

On this episode of The Digital Week Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Paula Dootson discuss Interactive Business Models.

Following the news of a large insurance company in the US announcing they would no longer underwrite traditional life insurance policy, and instead get customers to share personal data via wearable devices.

Paula and Marek discuss the implications for customers and how this model could disrupt other industries.

This week on The Digital Week we are joined by Everledger CEO, Leanne Kemp. Leanne joins host, Marek Kowalkiewicz, to discuss her leadership journey, the realities and capabilities of blockchain and of course, jobs of the future.

Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Dr Mark Pedersen of KJR discuss Digital Maturity with Oliver Bolton.

Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Professor Michael Rosemann discuss the ART of excellence with Oliver Bolton.

In this episode of the Digital Week we talk to Cat Matson, Brisbane’s Chief Digital Officer, on the need for technology to become more responsible in the digital age. The CDE examines how digital technology can amplify existing human values and forms of deviance, which as Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz explains occurs because:

“We live in a world of imperfect information - people who participate in the economy don’t know enough about the decisions they’re making, and that leads to all sorts of perverse or deviant situations in the marketplace”.

Also discussed is the effect of the profit motive on the motivation to do good, the lack of appropriate regulation within the digital space, as well as how governments are ill equipped to promptly address issues of responsibility and accountability in legislation, which as Cat highlights is partly because:

“...these platforms have become such a significant utility…if it’s now a global utility, when will it be regulated like other utilities?”

The responsibility of technology is a pertinent concern for the CDE, with more research being necessary to explore these issues further in the future.

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Researcher and PhD student Anna Oberländer, joins Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz and Professor Michael Rosemann on The Digital Week. Anna is visiting QUT to conduct research exploring Opportunity Management. Together with Michael Rosemann, Anna is investigating how organisations can best capitalize on opportunities.